While Ms. Albertina traveled through the court system, the brick house on Strauss Street became blighted.
But though he was initially hailed as a saviour for ending one-party rule, his time in office became blighted by corruption, political suppression and revelations of wild extravagance.
This area, once housing sought-after properties with waterfront views, now deemed at risk of flooding, became blighted with red marks on a map — from Battery Park to Coney Island to Staten Island's south beaches — as Hurricane Irene approached with agonizingly slow menace.
Canada is such a civilised country, with really nice people, but it has become blighted by this one annual episode.
Politics has become blighted by a bitter clash between Mr Obasanjo and his vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, who are now trading accusations of corruption against each other.
In addition, states and municipalities have grown more aggressive in the last few months in trying to force banks to maintain foreclosed properties, which have become blights on neighborhoods from coast to coast.
Actor Rupert Everett and Oscar Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland were among those at a ceremony in Paris today unveiling the Irish dramatist's restored tomb, which had become blighted by lipstick smears left by thousands of kisses.
The property went into foreclosure and became a blight on the area until it was purchased by two developers who set out to bring it back to respectability.
This horrific, perhaps preventable murder, became a blight on New York and New Yorkers for years.
An emphasis on a certain kind of testing has become a blight upon the city's classrooms.
At the opposite end of the country, in Papua, separatist agitation continues.Terrorism has become another blight in recent years.
